Wednesday 17 September 2014

Pentaho Repository Synchronizer (PRS) Plugin in Pentaho 5.0

Hello Guys,

In this post i would like to explain How to use Pentaho Repository Synchronizer (PRS) in Pentaho 5.0

The Pentaho Repository Synchronizer (PRS) is a Pentaho plugin that allows you to interact with the solution repository of Pentaho 5.0 by keeping the disk-based file structure synchronized with the Pentaho internal solution repository (JCR).


There's no filesystem counterpart for the JCR files. so You may need to install the Pentaho Repository Synchronizer, a community plugin available in the Pentaho Marketplace.

 


Click on the Repository Synchronizer plugin under the Tools menu.:


That will "sync" the JCR with a folder inside pentaho-solutions/system/repositorySynchronizer.


How it works
It has 3 modes of work:
   1) Transfer from JCR to File System
   2)Synchronize JCR with File System
   3)Transfer to JCR from File System

      

 However, the sync is rather limited. It only checks for differences in filesize and does not track changes that have no size impact. Plus, when you sync, there's no control over which version gets written over.

 I advise you to be extremely careful with the synchronisation process, and only select the two copy modes: copy from JCR to filesystem and copy to JCR from filesystem.

This plugin is very useful for deploy the code in Pentaho 5.0 and also helping to improve the Version control system (VCS).

Cheers !!!!!
 
If you have any question you can ask me or else you can drop me email :


Sumit Bansal
BI Developer
sumitbansal450@gmail.com

References:

http://pedroalves-bi.blogspot.in/2013/12/new-pentaho-application-pentaho.html